Jeremiah 4:20 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁰ Disaster follows hard on disaster, the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, my curtains in a moment.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ News of one violent disaster and calamity comes close after another, for the whole land is laid waste; suddenly are my tents spoiled and destroyed, and my [tent] curtains ruined in a moment.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, and my curtains in a moment.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Disaster follows disaster; the whole land is ruined. Suddenly, my tents are destroyed, my shelter in a moment.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Destruction upon destruction has been called forth. And the entire earth has been devastated. My tabernacles have been destroyed suddenly, and my tents in an instant.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ Destruction upon destruction is called for, and all the earth is laid waste: my tents are destroyed on a sudden and my pavilions in a moment.

Jeremiah 4:20 Cross References

Psalm 42:7

Deep calls to deep at the thunder of thy cataracts; all thy waves and thy billows have gone over me.

Psalm 72:19

Blessed be his glorious name for ever; may his glory fill the whole earth! Amen and Amen!

Exodus 33:5

For the Lord had said to Moses, “Say to the people of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people; if for a single moment I should go up among you, I would consume you. So now put off your ornaments from you, that I may know what to do with you.’ ”

Isaiah 13:6

Wail, for the day of the Lord is near; as destruction from the Almighty it will come!

Isaiah 15:5

My heart cries out for Moab; his fugitives flee to Zoar, to Eglath-shelishiyah. For at the ascent of Luhith they go up weeping; on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of destruction;

Isaiah 33:20

Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts! Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, an immovable tent, whose stakes will never be plucked up, nor will any of its cords be broken.

Isaiah 47:9

These two things shall come to you in a moment, in one day; the loss of children and widowhood shall come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the great power of your enchantments.

Isaiah 54:2

Enlarge the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out; hold not back, lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes.

Jeremiah 12:11

They have made it a desolation; desolate, it mourns to me. The whole land is made desolate, but no man lays it to heart.

Jeremiah 17:18

Let those be put to shame who persecute me, but let me not be put to shame; let them be dismayed, but let me not be dismayed; bring upon them the day of evil; destroy them with double destruction!

Jeremiah 4:21

How long must I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?

Jeremiah 4:27

For thus says the Lord, “The whole land shall be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.

Jeremiah 4:6

Raise a standard toward Zion, flee for safety, stay not, for I bring evil from the north, and great destruction.

Jeremiah 9:18

let them make haste and raise a wailing over us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush with water.

Lamentations 3:47

panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction;

Ezekiel 14:21

“For thus says the Lord God: How much more when I send upon Jerusalem my four sore acts of judgment, sword, famine, evil beasts, and pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!

Joel 1:15

Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.

Leviticus 26:18

And if in spite of this you will not hearken to me, then I will chastise you again sevenfold for your sins,

Leviticus 26:21

“Then if you walk contrary to me, and will not hearken to me, I will bring more plagues upon you, sevenfold as many as your sins.

Leviticus 26:24

then I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself will smite you sevenfold for your sins.

Leviticus 26:28

then I will walk contrary to you in fury, and chastise you myself sevenfold for your sins.

Habakkuk 3:7

I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction; the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.

Numbers 16:21

“Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.”

Numbers 16:45

“Get away from the midst of this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.” And they fell on their faces.

Matthew 10:28

And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

2 Thessalonians 1:9

They shall suffer the punishment of eternal destruction and exclusion from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,